Photons: a Definition

[Mirinee]

in a biochemical equation, it would probably come out something like H = L x D / M

Objection.
Is that equation even dimensionally correct? What are the units of heat and light?
Explain "Biochemical".

[nomercy]

X.x I have no idea. That's what Rena said, I just wrote it down XD

[Little Killer]

Whoa you guys are pretty smart.... me on the other hand is not.

Yea me too, but I'm one of the best at multitasking!

[Cye Zero]

Think about it logically. If you touch a lightbulb with your bare hands, you'll feel heat and if it's been on for a while, get burned. All you have to do is get a focus point for it, and wait. Then blam, you have yourself a 'photon' weapon of your own.

Oh yeah, Little Killer, XD is just letterface. If you laugh really hard, your face looks a little like that, and it's as close as it can get via computerization and use of the alphabet.

sort of like a magnifying glass being used to burn ants. Just focus the light long enough and BAM!!!! roasted ants

[Little Killer]

I think we need to leave the ants alone. Sometimes, they remind me of humans. . . They just don't have photon weapons.

[nomercy]

sort of like a magnifying glass being used to burn ants. Just focus the light long enough and BAM!!!! roasted ants

Chea, just that. Once it gets strong enough, they go pop.

[Little Killer]

Awe. . . how sad. POPANTS! (popcorn ants)

[Anti Hacker]

and is its own antiparticle.

Doesn't that mean if you shine two lights perfectly at one another they should go out? o_O Wait now I'm horribly confused!

[nomercy]

That confused me, as well.

[Mirinee]

Well, it confused me as well, but that was what the dictionary said! Firstly, I'm no physicist, and I don't know what an antiparticle is, so I had a look on Wikipedia, but I still didn't understand.

Apparently, the dictionary was wrong. It isn't its own antiparticle. "Photon holes" are. Don't try to understand that. I tried to ask my close friend, a final year physics undergraduate, but he wouldn't explain to me .

The article on photons in Wikipedia was more interesting, and even more still, the article on lasers! That's more like what we're really interested in.